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Wednesday, the 25th September, 1940 commencing at 11 am.

at their Sales Room, No. 2. Con- naught Poad. Central, Room No.

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2 Trunks and 2 Suitcases of Per-

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1 Carton Grape Fruit Juice

38 Pieces of Fancy Ladies' Dresses

'A. QUANTITY OF FURNITURE AND SUNDRIES

and

the following goods at

present

stored in the Godown at No. 2, Wood Road, Basement:

5 Packages Wire Shorts

4 Pieces Galvanized Angle Iron-

2 Bales Old Newspaper

10 Bags Nitrate of Soda

Terms: Cash on Delivery.

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GERMANY'S POWERFUL

DIVE-BOMBERS

Spearhead of the Germans' attack on Britain as in France and Belgium, as it was also in Poland last September, is the dive-bomber, a deadly weapon in skliful hands. Ahead of the tanks, armoured cars, machine-gup carriers, and all the me- chanical aids to modern war, the swift dive-bomber has been used to smash road junctions, harass troop-concentrations, and even to demoralise refugees, and has been used ruthlessly and with terrific effect.

It is probably safe to say that had it not been, for her fleet of these vicious craft, the German Army "would be still an the Belgian frontler, or at most, not many miles inside.

GENERAL

DAUGHTER IL DUCE'S LOVE FOR MAN IN

FOR ARABS!

IRON LUNG

CHICAGO, Sept. 23 (Renter)—A į daughter has been born to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Snite, the famous "Iron Lung man, who was mar- rled in August last year."

Seventh Air Raid.

On Haifa

HAIFA, Sept. 23 (Reuter)—Leaf- leta in Arable protesting Mus- solini's love for the Arabs Were

j. Snite has been Hving in a dropped" at the same time Rs mechanical respirator since he bombs when Italian warplanes was stricken with infantile paraly-raided Haifa for the seventh time sis in China in 1936. Before his on Saturday.

Germany has three principal on the Mediterranean, the tight-marriage he made a pilgrimage to types of dive-bomber, the Junkers ing on the Ebro front, and during Lourdes to seek a cure. Ju. 87. the Blohim and Voss Ha. the Catalonian 137, and the Henschel Hs. 123, and Bombing of of these the Junkers is the one harbours was most frequently used. It is an achievements, amazingly sturdy machine, and tremendous after the Polish campaign it was cities, notably in Barcelona," Many

part of the war.

ships in Spanish one of their main and they caused

Thailand

damage in several To Abrogate

claimed by the Junkers Company ships were destroyed by direct French Pact

that there was not a

Bombs damaged a mosque and killed and severely injured people sheltering nearby."

Another bomb exploded inside

a Moslem cemetery tearing open tomb- graves and demolishing stones, fragments of which caused casualties.

A bus carrying 10 Arab passen- gers was struck by a bomb which single in- hits, and they were also.. used A

killed the driver and Injured stance of German dive-bomber effectively against tank forma- TOKYO, Sept. 23 (Reater)

many of the passengers. A Bri- units falling to respond to a call tions,

Luang Bipal Songram, the Thai-tish constable immediately lifted owing to engine от airframe Perhaps it was over-confidence and Prime Minister, announced the driver's body aside and drove, trouble

as a result of the ease with which in Parliament at Bangkok yester the bus to a hospital.

Indeed, so successful and so they dealt with outmoded fighters day that Thailand proposed to Arab and Jewish wardens work-- formidable were these craft, that Poland. that cost the Germans abrogate the Non-Aggression Pacted side by side in rescuing injured the practice at sending out an so many of the dive-bombers in with France unless the Vichy escort of fighters to cover Ju 87's the early days of the German Government accepts

ters and fighting the fres was abandoned, as it was felt that offensive on the western front, torial demands on Indo-China,

the

the dive-bombers could deal them- In the Spitfire and the Hurri-according to a Bangkok despatch of a Thailand goodwill mission selves with fighter opposition, "A cane of the Royal Air Force. the received here.

headed by the Vice-Minister of

Dybe Polish fighters was dive-bombers suddenly found that |

concluded number of

pact was

on Defence is halled by the Japanese shot down by these dive-bombers. they had caught Tartars. and September 12 but has not yet been 'press as an important move in

the promotion of closer les be The Junkers Ju 87 is a mono-scores of them fell victim to ma- ratified by France,

that could out-perform Meanwhile, the arrival in Japan tween Thailand and Japan. plane with a peculiar cranked chines

every department. It wing. It is a two-seater, and in them in addition to its bombload it car was recorded some months ago ries three machine-garis, two that ten Hurricanes on patrol fell controlled by the pilot and firing in with a squadron of Ju. 87's, and forward from their mounting in shot down 13 of them the leading edge of the wing, and fun lasted. and there the other controlled by the gun-promptly a ner and firing backward.

A BRAKE ON DIVING SPEED The machine is not particularly fast. and its diving-speed is of

course

while the! was very revision, in: German

methods, the dive-bombers being escorted by fighters front then

on,

HARD TO HIT

controlled by cleverly- By reason of their comparative- designed "flaps." which are adly small dimensions, the fact that justed edge-on to the airstream they approach vertically, and that!

have clean lines, dive- PUBLIC AUCTION. for use in timing the speed when they

bombers are extremely difficult to dropping to the attack.

Without the "flaps" the mono-hit. from the ground. Well-placed

then. but their hour in a terminal velocity dive, now and

RIOT OF INTERNEES IN SHANGHAI AVERTED BY

GUARD

LAST MINUTE SETTLEMENT.

·

It may be recalled that several Russians were injured, and many more Chinese soldiers sustained serious wounds, when a riot was staged by the internees on August 11, 1938. The incident then occur. red when the soldiers were forbia- DISPLAYING GRIM DETER-den to hoist a large chrése flag. MINATION AND PERFECT COM-The Chinese soldiers attacked the the Bus-Russian guard, but reinforcements POSURE, members of sian Regiment, guarding the in-turned the tide of the riot. Armeti order of the Liquidators or plane would reach 430 miles an/anti-aircraft fire may collect oneterned soldiers of the "Doomed with police batons. the Russians By the affairs of Mrs. O. Steger

Battalion," averted an ugly in-managed to disperse the soldiers, although many on both sides were (in liquidation), the Undersigned an impossible speed for accurate speed and suddenness of attack)cident shortly before 10 a..

bombing.. but by using the air give them a great advantage over Sept. 13, when a near-riot was injured. brakes, it is possible to dive verti. the ground gunner. Against air staged by the interness at the

Through the composure and de cally at a little over 200 miles an attack, when it takes the top of camp in Singapore Road, reports termination of the officer. and hour, resulting in considerably eight vicious Browning guns de- the North China Daily News.

members of the guard, a similar greater accuracy.

vering 9600 rounds a minute, it The trouble started at about 9incident was averted yesterday and A large load of bombs is not is a different story, and the dive-a.m. yesterday' when General scores of persons escaped injuries. carried by the dive-bombers, as pomber these days has to go very Hsien objected to having the foot- their purpose is not wholesale carefully he wants to get back ball field gate repaired. demolition of ground targets. but alive

!

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Thursday, the 26th September, 1940 commencing at 10.30 a.m.

Pear

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| coolies, arriving to do the job, were utter destruction of some strate- The theory of dive-bombing is practically forced to abandon it

itself, though' gic object. Thus the Ju. -87 car-simplicity

when more than a hundred sol- the

at No. 20, Peak Mansions. The ties a single large bomb of either practice has involved the solution diers marched to the gate, and

5001b. or 1000lb. In forked of many and varied problems stood there.

The situation was immediately mounting beneath the fuselage, The attacker's aim is to release and four much smaller bombs in his bombs while his machine is reported to Major G. H. Mann commandant of the camp, and he racks under the wings. It is diving steeply, sometimes almost arrived there a few minutes later however, the large bomb that vertically, toward the target, the

A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE

HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE-

comprising:--

Chesterfeld Couch and Chairs, Teak Cabinets, Bookcases, Card- table, Desk, Curtains Cushions, Rugs, Clock, Table Fans, Electric Fittings, Heaters, ́êtc.

Teák Extension Dining Table and Chairs, Sideboard, Glass Cabinet, Cutlery, Crockery, Glass Ware, Pictures, Brass Ornaments, Bronze Ware, Curios and Brass and Lacquered Trays,

Bedsteads. Wardrobe, Chest of Drawers Dressing Table, Bed and Table Linen, Elder Down, Woollen Blankets, etc.

also

A QUANTITY OF SILVER AND

BLACKWOOD WARE

and

1 Radio Set "Philips"

1 Frigidaire in good condition)

1 Vesta Treadle Sewing Machine

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September, 1940.

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AUSTRALIAN

ELECTION

MELBOURNE, Sept. 23 (Reuter)

--At the close of yesterday's count-

ing, it was

state of the parties in the House

of Representatives will be:

Indicated

United Australia Party-

Country Party, 15.

Federal Labour, 28.

that

Non-Communist Labour, Independent. 1

the

and asked General Hsieh to see causes the main damage, one that speed of the dive increasing the

him and explain the reason for his was dropped on a railway-line in velocity of the bomb so that its

jobjections. The Chinese general Poland, just ahead of a moving penetration will be the greater.

commander of the battalion which train being sufficient to derail al-

It may be mentioned in passing, almost three years ago won the most the entire trait,

to convince anyone who wonders admiration of the city for his re- With a view to interfering to how hard these bombs hit, that it sistance against the Japanese, re- the minimum extent with the has been necessary to dig four fused to see Major Mann. streamlining of the machine. the feet through solid earth to fina Seeing that his

persuasions bomb under the fuselage 15 small practice bombs dropped by brought no results, Major Mann carried t'ose against the under-

ordered the guard commander to allow no one in or out of the 'de of the machine. It could not be released from this position, The pilot may attack either in

camp, unless General Hsieh chang- however, with the machine stand-one straight, screaming dive fromed his mind and explained b ing on its nose in a steep dive, say 3,000 feet or more, or he may attitude.

dive-bombers, "

fot fear of fouling the airscrew play a game of hide and seek !! SOLDIERS ANGERED as it dropped, and therefore it is protected by low clouds, and sweep This was also conveyed to the out suddenly after sighting and soldiers, who at one took up s neatly swung downward on the hinged fork mounting, and so selecting his target in advance. threatening attitude and demand- drops clear,

A third method, is to approach led that visitors be allowed in. The very high and to come down in a jofficer of the guard told them that Beries ut dives, with a loop as he could not disobey the instruc- several thousand feet, out of which tions issued, and considered the

DESTRUCTIVE POWER The destructive power of Ger-

many's dive-bombers, notably the the bomber falls like a stone to matter settled.

Ju. 87, was first demonstrated in Spain, where it had a great dea to do with Franco's ultimate vic- tory. This type first took a hand in the war in Spain in 1938, and was used successfully in the drive

ward its target.

RIOT OF INTERNEES Faced with determination on the Yet the problem has une more

part 01 the Russian Regiment. apart from the use DI answer

guard tu carry out their instruc- fighters A French expert has tions to the letter, more than a insisted on the use of shrapnel to hundred of the interned soldiers ward or dive-bombers, his arg broke into the yard of the guard ment being that even if the velo- room and attempted to, disarm the city of a burst is nearly expended Russians." This also met failure. when the machine is hit, the thanks to the tact and determina- downward speed of the bomber tion displayed by the members of will be quite sufficient to cause the guard... hedvy impact, with the desired results.

BRITISH anti-aircraft gunners in action. They have helped materially in repelling the Nazi air attacks.

At the same time, the officer of the guard telephoned to the Rus- stan Regiment, asking for rein- forcements since the situation was becoming more and more serious. An Inlying picquet platoon was im- mediately despatched to the camp. and Major Maun informed.

SITUATION CALMED

The arrival of the platoon and. Major Mann had a somewhat cool- ing effect upon the soldiers. No threats were shouted and after lengthy conversations with the leaders of the soldiers, Major Mann was able to persuade Gen- eral Hsieh to see him.

The seriousness of the situation was finally liquidated after several concessions were made by both sides. The inlying platoon, which had not left their buses, returned to the Russian Regiment quarters a few minutes later.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1940.

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